$eptember No Buy-All Are Welcome!

I'm late to the game, but I'd like to join. This month is kind of a "get a feel for it month". I'd love to have 10 no buy days, we'll see if that's realistic. I started tracking on the 6th, this is what I have so far:

6th: $39 Marshalls, gift for a b-day party, $27 Target, gift for another b-day party
7th: $25 Gas, $15 copies, $20 office visit copay for sick kiddo, $3 antibiotics for said kiddo
8th: $14 big prize for smaller kiddo, he pooped in the potty, a major victory
9th: $0 day :banana:
10th:: $0 day :banana:
11th: $0 day :banana:
12th: $30 race registration, $27 gas
13th: $0 day :banana:
14th: $35 gas, $15 Target
15th: $12 groceries, $28 dinner and a movie
16th: $20 medical, $30 Gas, $15 emergency lunch at Taco Bell
17th: $20 Subway

4/10 no buy days
 
Running Total: Spent $436
$1000 budget...$564 left
$0 Days: 7
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 92

Groceries budget- $250-16-46-69-25= 94

September 1 : 0
September 2: 31 (16 groceries, 15 misc)
September 3: 46 (groceries)
September 4: 34 (pedicure/eyebrows)
September 5: 54 (9 Burger King, 8 Old Navy, 28 flea market, 9 Walgeens)
September 6: 0
September 7: 47 (bowling, quick stop at Walgreens)
September 8: 0
September 9: 69 (groceries)
September 10: 0
September 11: 0
September 12: 57 (37 lunch, 20 meds & misc at Walgreens)
September 13: 25 (groceries)
September 14 32 (bowling)
September 15: 0
September 16: 0
September 17: 40 (food and drinks at work event)
 
Today I took my mom to a friends house early this morning so they could go to the Ohio State Game. I then stopped for a few groceries and also got lunch out.

September Budget:

Groceries - $200/ $70.73 left
Household- $50/ $6.29 left
Gas/Car- $50/ $26.52 left
Eating out/ Entertainment- $50/ $24.61 left
School Spending- $20
Misc/Emergency- $50/$34.71 left

Total- $420/ $242.63 left

Goal of 12 No buy Days

Week One
9/1- $0
9/2- $19 dinner at Red Latern Inn
9/3- Out of town
9/4- Out of town
9/5- Out of town
9/6- Out of town
9/7- $0

Week Two
9/8- $10.50 for allergy meds
9/9- $79.94 Grocery Store
9/10- $0
9/11- $0
9/12- $0
9/13- $0
9/14- $44.48 grocery store and $15.29 target

Week Three
9/15- $0
9/16- $23.48 gas
9/17- $0
9/18- $25.79 Groceries, $12.27 Household, and $6.39 Lunch
9/19-
9/20-
9/21-

7/12 No Buy days

Coupon and Store Savings- $44.20
 

I'm late to the game, but I'd like to join. This month is kind of a "get a feel for it month". I'd love to have 10 no buy days, we'll see if that's realistic. I started tracking on the 6th, this is what I have so far:

6th: $39 Marshalls, gift for a b-day party, $27 Target, gift for another b-day party
7th: $25 Gas, $15 copies, $20 office visit copay for sick kiddo, $3 antibiotics for said kiddo
8th: $14 big prize for smaller kiddo, he pooped in the potty, a major victory
9th: $0 day :banana:
10th:: $0 day :banana:
11th: $0 day :banana:
12th: $30 race registration, $27 gas
13th: $0 day :banana:
14th: $35 gas, $15 Target
15th: $12 groceries, $28 dinner and a movie
16th: $20 medical, $30 Gas, $15 emergency lunch at Taco Bell
17th: $20 Subway
18th: $0 day :banana:

5/10 no buy days]
 
No Buy Days : 11/10 New goal 15
Gas : 55$ (max 75$)
Groceries : 189$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 65$ (max 150$)
Non-necessities : 116$ (max 250$)

9/01 : 0$
9/02 : 0$
9/03 : 30$ (gas)
9/04 : 0$
9/05 : 210$ (groceries, medication, cat stuff, drinks)
9/06 : 0$
9/07 : 0$
9/08 : 0$
9/09 : 0$
9/10 : 13$ (pharmacy)
9/11 : 0$
9/12 : 69$ (eating out + movie)
9/13 : 20$ (groceries)
9/14 : 0$
9/15 : 35$ (breakfast + gas + groceries)
9/16 : 0$
9/17 : 0$
9/18 : 48$ (ice cream + clothes + motrin)
 
September 1- $0 :yay: I always do well on the months I start with a $0 day, here's hoping!
September 2-$0 :yay: I had a late-day frustration break down with the kids (trying to get the house ready for company) and really needed a break. Turned out DH needed one too (rough day at work) so we decided to meet for a half hour refresher. We were able to not ruin a $0 day though cause I had a Gift Card from Christmas for Dunkin Doughnuts. We never go there so we decided to finally use that. It was nice to spend a little adult time and get away from the house for a bit. Also went to Staples for a few things but used the free backpack G/C for that, and still have $35 left on it.
September 3- $25 Walgreen's, 2 belts for DD15 and white t-shirts for tye dyeing (for Disney.) $100 Sam's Membership renewal and groceries for DH's work and home, $10 gas. Went out to dinner but grandma and grandpa took us.
September 4- $150 Kohl's, kids school clothes. $12 Claires, earrings for kids. $5.00 Justice earrnings. $41 Aero, kids school clothes. $98 JCPenney's kids clothes. $15 lunch at the mall. $10 pizza for dinner. The kids had pretzels at the mall too, but I had coupons so they were free!!!
2 Lessons today (I knew them but was reminded of them.) Grandma likes to eat out. When she is here we go out. And GIRLS ARE EXPENSIVE!!! :eek:
September 5- Spent the day at Niagara Falls...$10 parking, $56 Maid of the Mist, $30 eating out lunch and dinner.
September 6- $38, last ballgame of the season, $60 groceries (though $30 of it was teeth whitening strips for DD15,) $3 Staples school supplies.
September 7- Decided to take the kids seperately to pick out their first day outifts. That was more headache maybe then it was worth and made for more spending days. Anyway, $145 school clothes for kids at Penney's (some I suspect will be returned.) And $1 for locer magnets for DD11. Also went to Chuck E Cheese for one last day beofre school starts lunch, but had a guest coupon still so we ate and played free.
September 8- $32 socks and lunch stuff, $27 dinner at Friendly's (been tradition for a dozen years) I used 3 kids eat free coupon and a $5 off coupon and got the bill cut in half.
September 9- Rough week! Today was supposed to be a $0 day, but my DH curprised me and took a vacation day today to spend with me (first day of school for DD15 so they wer all gone today.) :love: He's been working 80 weeks and needed this so bad. We got the kids off to school, spent the morning together, went to lunch (i had a coupon) and then came home and took a nap. It was a fantastic day and sorth every penny! I literally cried mid day, it was that perfect of a day. So, lunch $16 (including tip, dessert and lots of leftovers for tomorrow) Gas for my car $45, bread store $30 (stocked up on jams, DD8 is a PB&J addict) and finally $35 for some additional lunch things.
September 10-$0:yay: It was rough, I wanted to go buy a gift for a party we have tomorrow (DD15's BFF's Sweet 16) but really wanted to get some work done around here and needed a $0 day so I will be going shopping for it in the morning.
September 11- DD15's BFF's sweet 16 party day. $16 cash plus $12 to make a candly flower pot and $5 for food for the kids to hold them over. (We went to a Free kids fest before. The plan was to have time to run home for a bite to eat but we got lost and so we didn't have long at the festival before we had to get to the party and not knowing when we'd eat I hit a drive though.)
September 12- I took DD8 adn DD15 to the amusement park, it was the lst day and we had free tickets. DH had gotten 7 thinking he and DD15 would go and she could take her 2 BFFs but he had to work and she had plans so the girls and I went. It is free parking and we didn't eat there so it was free. We gave a family the 4 extra tickets and they were very thankful. After we hit Subway and brought it home, $10.80. Then I did a LARGE grocery shopping, I needed a lot, $150. Tonight hubby took me out to dinner, I had a coupon for a free appetizer, $36. Going to try and start organizing my tornado of a basement tomorrow. It's the first full week of school and I need to getback into cleaning mode. Hopefully that will mean it will be a $0 day, I need to catch up!
September 13-$0 :yay: Kind of sad to get one today. I shoudl have paid dance tuition today, but DD11 decided to drop ballet, tap and jazz. She will still do hip hop and DD8 will still dance but won't pay till I go tomorrow. I always said I'd never push them to do anything they didn't want to, and I still won't, but now that she has decided this I am sad. She's been dancing 7 years. Today I worked on the basement and cooked several meals for the freezer and spent nothing.
September 14-$0 Well, with DD11 dropping dance the girl didn't know what my bill was so I will pay it tomorrow or Thursday. So, today was a no spend day after all!
September 15-$0 :yay: Took back bottles today and got back $25.45. That is a crazy amount of bottles. DH had told DD15 if she did it she could have the money but I finally had enough and did it myself. I don't think she realized how a nickle at a time adds up.
September 16-$0 :yay: Got a bunch of rebates and a large flex reimbursement check for DD's wisdom teeth, that with the $25 from bottles yesterday and I added $550 to the Disney account.
September 17- Dance Tuition $86, used hip-hop shoes $5, Sam's lunch, $2.68, Stock up @ Sam's (including some clothes for DH) $273.68, gas, $31.23
September 18- DH had to work out of town and attend a funeral, so DD8 and DD11 and I decided to keep him company in the car and make a day of it. He dropped us off at Corning Museum of Glass, $14 admission. We met back up for a late lunch $40 (ouch!) Then we waled in the little town, DH bought a sluch for me and the kids to share $2, then we took the kids to a place with bumper boats, it was $7.50 for the 2 of them. It was supposed to be 10 minutes, but there was no one there so they let them play as long as they wanted. They played for about an hour and when they were done they were soaked! We took their clothes off and put on the sweatshirt I had packed and wrapped them in blankets for the ride home. NOTE TO SELF, those boats spray too! After that we waited in the car for a while while DH worked (we had half naked kids remember.) So they played on their DSs and and I surfed on DIS. :) Then we made the 2 hours drive home. After I hit the grocery store, $80.83 and got DH some slipper and DD15 some medicine $18.22. After all that I was too tired to think about dinner so I got a pizza for $7.50. I spent a ton on groceries this week as I am refilling my freezer. I ahve piles of sloppy joe, a tray of lasagna and a tray of shells in there now (we had another tray of lasagne last night.) Tomorrow I will make stuffed peppers and stuffed cabbage and freeze much of it. I also will be putting pulled pork in the crock pot before I go to bed tonight so it can be frozen in the morning. I will also be making banana and zucchini bread tomorrow. Soooooo, that is the reason for the higher grocery bills this week.
7/15 No Buy Days
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Happy About Record Since Joining No Buy-
January-14 Days
February-13 Days
March-17 Days
April-15 Days
May-15 Days
June-8 Days
July- 6 Days (only in town and only recorded half the month, probably had about 7-8 no buys while away)
August-15 Days
Longest Streak-4 Days in a Row!
 
9/1- $14.96 for lunch during our training for work. $40 for DD cheer shoes.
9/2- $48.26 for gas. $40 plus $2.50 ATM fee because one of my cheerleaders couldn't afford her cheer shoes and I didn't want her to be the only one without them :guilty:
9/3- Got $60 from the ATM for the weekend but only spent $16 to get in the football game...no concessions because I just can't see a $3 hot dog.
9/4- $4 for concessions at LL game because we can't bring outside food. After the game we went to San Antonio for the weekend so that was vacation budget.
9/5- Sea World
9/6-Still in SA- BTW I did the whole trip (souvies included for less than $200 :thumbsup2)
9/7- $20 at Family dollar for dish towels and cleaning stuff.
9/8- $0 :thumbsup2
9/9- $5 at wendy's for lunch
9/10- Had a staff meeting at work and left early so I went to get my nails and eyebrows done...$25 (had a $10 gc)
9/11- $0 :thumbsup2 and my bestie gave me $50 as a late bday gift....unfortunately somewhere at my dd's LL game my bag with my wallet was "misplaced" I am hoping one of the girls just picked up the wrong one.
9/12- $0 :thumbsup2 duh lol because I still don't have my wallet. And just as an aside of course in my wallet there is $20 in Register Rewards that expired today!
9/13- $0 :thumbsup2 no wallet!
9/14-$0 :thumbsup2
9/15-$184.64 :scared1: at Target. I bought DS1 a new carseat so I could give his to DS2. Also had to get my DD a few sports bras for cheerleading :eek: (had a total panic attack) I am not pulling this from any of these budget cats though.
9/16-$0 Paid lots of bills online so that made me not wanna spend anything. :thumbsup2
9/17- $23.81 for dinner at cheddars with my cousin. $10 for a haircut for DS
9/18- $20 for concession stand food

So...
0/200 groceries
70/100 household
47.77/50 eating out
61/75 entertainment
 
Wow.... came home late. The baseball game went into extra innings, so the Adam Lambert concert started really late. Allison Ihreta opened for Adam, and the crowd just wasn't having any of her. It was late, people were crabby, and by the time he came on the crowd was a little hostile. He did a great job tho. He can really sing.

Running Total: Spent $467
$1000 budget...$533 left
$0 Days: 7
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 92

Groceries budget- $250-16-46-69-25-18= 76

September 1 : 0
September 2: 31 (16 groceries, 15 misc)
September 3: 46 (groceries)
September 4: 34 (pedicure/eyebrows)
September 5: 54 (9 Burger King, 8 Old Navy, 28 flea market, 9 Walgeens)
September 6: 0
September 7: 47 (bowling, quick stop at Walgreens)
September 8: 0
September 9: 69 (groceries)
September 10: 0
September 11: 0
September 12: 57 (37 lunch, 20 meds & misc at Walgreens)
September 13: 25 (groceries)
September 14 32 (bowling)
September 15: 0
September 16: 0
September 17: 40 (food and drinks at work event)
September 18: 31 ( 18 pop, 13 food at the game)
 
9/1 $0
9/2 $16 Walmart
9/3 $0
9/4 $0
9/5 $49 King Soopers groceries
9/6 $62 Safeway groceries
9/7 $5 Walmart, $101 Sam's club monthly stock-up
9/8 $0
9/9 $21 Target, $8.50 Crocs
9/10 $26 Dollar Tree, $41 haircut
9/11 $0
9/12 $0
9/13 $3.86 Post Office, $26 King Soopers, $30 Amazon, $32 net10
9/14 $9 thrift store - coat for DD, uniform shorts DS
9/15 $0
9/16
9/17 $50 wedding gift, $70 King Soopers
9/18 $0
9/19 $0

10 of 12 no-buy days so far.
 
I have been MIA. My poor credit card is getting a workout. In the wallet, out of the wallet, swipe, return and repeat. I can't keep up! We've bought:

new water softener (emergency fund) $2500
Wal-Mart Anniversary Sale $300 including groceries and gifts.
Housewarming gift for DS and "DD"- $100
Microsoft Office $150 (the trial had run out, and, while I know I could have used Open Office to read, I really wanted the stuff in MS Office)
Music for a slide show for my school website $10
Renewal of Daily Cafe website-yes I needed it $70

And the ride continues. Let's hope October is a better one. I will try for a couple more $0 days, though.

As of now: 4/10 NO BUY DAYS 40%
 
Went out to target this morning to see if they had any school supplies left on clearance and they did. I also grabbed two Toy Story 3 toys for my cousin for Christmas at 75% off it was a great deal.

September Budget:

Groceries - $200/ $70.73 left
Household- $50/ $6.29 left
Gas/Car- $50/ $26.52 left
Eating out/ Entertainment- $50/ $24.61 left
School Spending- $20
Misc/Emergency- $50/$20.71 left

Total- $420/ $228.63 left

Goal of 12 No buy Days

Week One
9/1- $0
9/2- $19 dinner at Red Latern Inn
9/3- Out of town
9/4- Out of town
9/5- Out of town
9/6- Out of town
9/7- $0

Week Two
9/8- $10.50 for allergy meds
9/9- $79.94 Grocery Store
9/10- $0
9/11- $0
9/12- $0
9/13- $0
9/14- $44.48 grocery store and $15.29 target

Week Three
9/15- $0
9/16- $23.48 gas
9/17- $0
9/18- $25.79 Groceries, $12.27 Household, and $6.39 Lunch
9/19- $14 Target
9/20-
9/21-

7/12 No Buy days

Coupon and Store Savings- $69.69
 
Went grocery shopping, and too tired to do anything else.

Running Total: Spent $508
$1000 budget...$492 left
$0 Days: 7
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 99

Groceries budget- $250-16-46-69-25-18-41= 35

September 1 : 0
September 2: 31 (16 groceries, 15 misc)
September 3: 46 (groceries)
September 4: 34 (pedicure/eyebrows)
September 5: 54 (9 Burger King, 8 Old Navy, 28 flea market, 9 Walgeens)
September 6: 0
September 7: 47 (bowling, quick stop at Walgreens)
September 8: 0
September 9: 69 (groceries)
September 10: 0
September 11: 0
September 12: 57 (37 lunch, 20 meds & misc at Walgreens)
September 13: 25 (groceries)
September 14 32 (bowling)
September 15: 0
September 16: 0
September 17: 40 (food and drinks at work event)
September 18: 31 ( 18 pop, 13 food at the game)
September 19: 41 ( groceries)
 
September 1- $0 :yay: I always do well on the months I start with a $0 day, here's hoping!
September 2-$0 :yay: I had a late-day frustration break down with the kids (trying to get the house ready for company) and really needed a break. Turned out DH needed one too (rough day at work) so we decided to meet for a half hour refresher. We were able to not ruin a $0 day though cause I had a Gift Card from Christmas for Dunkin Doughnuts. We never go there so we decided to finally use that. It was nice to spend a little adult time and get away from the house for a bit. Also went to Staples for a few things but used the free backpack G/C for that, and still have $35 left on it.
September 3- $25 Walgreen's, 2 belts for DD15 and white t-shirts for tye dyeing (for Disney.) $100 Sam's Membership renewal and groceries for DH's work and home, $10 gas. Went out to dinner but grandma and grandpa took us.
September 4- $150 Kohl's, kids school clothes. $12 Claires, earrings for kids. $5.00 Justice earrnings. $41 Aero, kids school clothes. $98 JCPenney's kids clothes. $15 lunch at the mall. $10 pizza for dinner. The kids had pretzels at the mall too, but I had coupons so they were free!!!
2 Lessons today (I knew them but was reminded of them.) Grandma likes to eat out. When she is here we go out. And GIRLS ARE EXPENSIVE!!! :eek:
September 5- Spent the day at Niagara Falls...$10 parking, $56 Maid of the Mist, $30 eating out lunch and dinner.
September 6- $38, last ballgame of the season, $60 groceries (though $30 of it was teeth whitening strips for DD15,) $3 Staples school supplies.
September 7- Decided to take the kids seperately to pick out their first day outifts. That was more headache maybe then it was worth and made for more spending days. Anyway, $145 school clothes for kids at Penney's (some I suspect will be returned.) And $1 for locer magnets for DD11. Also went to Chuck E Cheese for one last day beofre school starts lunch, but had a guest coupon still so we ate and played free.
September 8- $32 socks and lunch stuff, $27 dinner at Friendly's (been tradition for a dozen years) I used 3 kids eat free coupon and a $5 off coupon and got the bill cut in half.
September 9- Rough week! Today was supposed to be a $0 day, but my DH curprised me and took a vacation day today to spend with me (first day of school for DD15 so they wer all gone today.) :love: He's been working 80 weeks and needed this so bad. We got the kids off to school, spent the morning together, went to lunch (i had a coupon) and then came home and took a nap. It was a fantastic day and sorth every penny! I literally cried mid day, it was that perfect of a day. So, lunch $16 (including tip, dessert and lots of leftovers for tomorrow) Gas for my car $45, bread store $30 (stocked up on jams, DD8 is a PB&J addict) and finally $35 for some additional lunch things.
September 10-$0:yay: It was rough, I wanted to go buy a gift for a party we have tomorrow (DD15's BFF's Sweet 16) but really wanted to get some work done around here and needed a $0 day so I will be going shopping for it in the morning.
September 11- DD15's BFF's sweet 16 party day. $16 cash plus $12 to make a candly flower pot and $5 for food for the kids to hold them over. (We went to a Free kids fest before. The plan was to have time to run home for a bite to eat but we got lost and so we didn't have long at the festival before we had to get to the party and not knowing when we'd eat I hit a drive though.)
September 12- I took DD8 adn DD15 to the amusement park, it was the lst day and we had free tickets. DH had gotten 7 thinking he and DD15 would go and she could take her 2 BFFs but he had to work and she had plans so the girls and I went. It is free parking and we didn't eat there so it was free. We gave a family the 4 extra tickets and they were very thankful. After we hit Subway and brought it home, $10.80. Then I did a LARGE grocery shopping, I needed a lot, $150. Tonight hubby took me out to dinner, I had a coupon for a free appetizer, $36. Going to try and start organizing my tornado of a basement tomorrow. It's the first full week of school and I need to getback into cleaning mode. Hopefully that will mean it will be a $0 day, I need to catch up!
September 13-$0 :yay: Kind of sad to get one today. I shoudl have paid dance tuition today, but DD11 decided to drop ballet, tap and jazz. She will still do hip hop and DD8 will still dance but won't pay till I go tomorrow. I always said I'd never push them to do anything they didn't want to, and I still won't, but now that she has decided this I am sad. She's been dancing 7 years. Today I worked on the basement and cooked several meals for the freezer and spent nothing.
September 14-$0 Well, with DD11 dropping dance the girl didn't know what my bill was so I will pay it tomorrow or Thursday. So, today was a no spend day after all!
September 15-$0 :yay: Took back bottles today and got back $25.45. That is a crazy amount of bottles. DH had told DD15 if she did it she could have the money but I finally had enough and did it myself. I don't think she realized how a nickle at a time adds up.
September 16-$0 :yay: Got a bunch of rebates and a large flex reimbursement check for DD's wisdom teeth, that with the $25 from bottles yesterday and I added $550 to the Disney account.
September 17- Dance Tuition $86, used hip-hop shoes $5, Sam's lunch, $2.68, Stock up @ Sam's (including some clothes for DH) $273.68, gas, $31.23
September 18- DH had to work out of town and attend a funeral, so DD8 and DD11 and I decided to keep him company in the car and make a day of it. He dropped us off at Corning Museum of Glass, $14 admission. We met back up for a late lunch $40 (ouch!) Then we waled in the little town, DH bought a sluch for me and the kids to share $2, then we took the kids to a place with bumper boats, it was $7.50 for the 2 of them. It was supposed to be 10 minutes, but there was no one there so they let them play as long as they wanted. They played for about an hour and when they were done they were soaked! We took their clothes off and put on the sweatshirt I had packed and wrapped them in blankets for the ride home. NOTE TO SELF, those boats spray too! After that we waited in the car for a while while DH worked (we had half naked kids remember.) So they played on their DSs and and I surfed on DIS. :) Then we made the 2 hours drive home. After I hit the grocery store, $80.83 and got DH some slipper and DD15 some medicine $18.22. After all that I was too tired to think about dinner so I got a pizza for $7.50. I spent a ton on groceries this week as I am refilling my freezer. I ahve piles of sloppy joe, a tray of lasagna and a tray of shells in there now (we had another tray of lasagne last night.) Tomorrow I will make stuffed peppers and stuffed cabbage and freeze much of it. I also will be putting pulled pork in the crock pot before I go to bed tonight so it can be frozen in the morning. I will also be making banana and zucchini bread tomorrow. Soooooo, that is the reason for the higher grocery bills this week.
September 19-$0 :yay: Well, I woke up feeling so fallish and wanting to go and enjoy the morning the way we usually do every fall weekend, picking apples and haivng cider and dounuts for breakfast. But, fall allergies were kicking my family's butts. DH was up all night and DD11 and DD15 were feeling kind of lousy too. DD8 was game as was DD11, but for the first time of the season I wanted to go as a family, so I decided to amke the first time next weekend. Sad to not go, but we stayed in, stocked the freezer and spent nothing.

8/15 No Buy Days
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Happy About Record Since Joining No Buy-
January-14 Days
February-13 Days
March-17 Days
April-15 Days
May-15 Days
June-8 Days
July- 6 Days (only in town and only recorded half the month, probably had about 7-8 no buys while away)
August-15 Days
Longest Streak-4 Days in a Row!
 
Virgderon, glad you had a good time. I sometimes feel sorry for the opening act, but I know what you mean. At the Bon Jovi concert we wet to this summer the opening act was totally ignored. And we wern't tired or cranky, we just wanted what we came there for. :lovestruc But I said to my DH that must feel lousy, you get a gig like opening for BON JOVI and no one listens to you. And this wasn't a new group, they had been around for a long time. DH said he's been to some with great opening acts and some not as great, guess that has something to do with it, and really tired fans must too. ;)
 
Virgderon, glad you had a good time. I sometimes feel sorry for the opening act, but I know what you mean. At the Bon Jovi concert we wet to this summer the opening act was totally ignored. And we wern't tired or cranky, we just wanted what we came there for. :lovestruc But I said to my DH that must feel lousy, you get a gig like opening for BON JOVI and no one listens to you. And this wasn't a new group, they had been around for a long time. DH said he's been to some with great opening acts and some not as great, guess that has something to do with it, and really tired fans must too. ;)

I felt bad for Allison, and for Adam. He did not come on until 11:30 pm, and he had to work pretty hard to get the crowd going. He did his best, and we appreciated the effort. Not everything in life happens the way it is supposed to, and we did not let it ruin our night. ;)
 
I felt bad for Allison, and for Adam. He did not come on until 11:30 pm, and he had to work pretty hard to get the crowd going. He did his best, and we appreciated the effort. Not everything in life happens the way it is supposed to, and we did not let it ruin our night. ;)

Wow, 11:30 is late! It has to make him feel good though that people waited so long. If he wasn't liked I am sure he'd have been singing to an almost empty place. So that has to feel good. It sounds like it was still fun, glad it was.

Oh, I bet Charming would have waited! :goodvibes
 
Groceries/Household Items: $220-$183.90= $3.35 REMAINING

$74.46 Target
$13.69 Dollar Tree
$1.08 Factory Card Outlet
$5.42 ALDI
$8.27 Target
$14.27 Walts
$3.65 Jewel
$4.30 B-Haven
$10.22 ALDI
$9.00 Post Office
$10.34 ALDI
$17.90 ALDI
$11.00 Dollar Tree
6.57 Walts
20.04 ALDI
2.14 Walgreens
4.00 Target

Gas: $250-$130= $60 REMAINING

Extras: $483.50 SPENT...

$0 Spend Days: (Goal is 12...6 so far!)

September 1: $0
September 2: $0
September 3: NO
September 4: NO
September 5: NO
September 6: NO
September 7: NO
September 8: $0
September 9: NO
September 10: NO
September 11: NO
September 12: NO
September 13: NO
September 14: $0
September 15: $0
September 16: $0
September 17: NO
September 18: NO
September 19: NO

YIKES! :scared1: That "EXTRAS" number just keeps getting bigger! It'll be interesting to see where we're at at the end of the month. We still need another $240 for our trip and right now I'm not sure that's going to happen. I'm babysitting on Thursday night so all that money will go towards our trip. We've listed a couple old Video Game things of DH's on Craigslist, I really hope those sell.
 












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